Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-06-12

mat made them want 20 stone II a. =
shoot Il. We need more. not las.
birds 9 kiRdlier treatment. 4 r,1s,r-
considerate greeting, than Z usuaIiv
gwen them. To mistreat 4 bird *.
grades the child or man; 70 Be cruel e
item brutalizes those INJECTING ~
wrong, and must Of necessity desfroy
sne sel-respect Of the person, and Ia.
nicts an injury upon the person more
IMAM upon the birds; hence for a don.
birds. - ~ - :
We weighed the calves TO-DAY Nav
5lst. The tTenty-f0nr had gained 4,
the aggregate 1243 pounds. 4 fraction
less than two POUNDS dav 10 the r.li
for the month Of MAY. The olde~t
No. %, OF, as We call him, i" Roderick .
SIX months old lacking three davs
weighed 55l pounds and had gsined n
pounds during the month. This. 10
= sure, = not a great result; yet. for
what might be termed ordinary stock
led on skim milk and = little cruel, Il
Is not 3 bad showing. At the rate
koderiek has gained in the last
three months, II he continues in the
same ratio until he Is g year old. be
VIII weigh nearly or quite thousand
pounds This viii pay. He is nov as
large as some Of the yearlinRs, which
have already been fed hay and roots
one winter.
] have believed, and do vet believe
that the shorthorn viii develop earlier
than any other breed We have; that
they will give the greatest return for
the feed, and in the quickest time OF
any. This calf is q grade fully two
thirds Shorthorn blood, and Ia this
case blood as well As feed " tells We
have other calves from the same sire
that are younger, gaining Just as fast
as this one.
Uncle John tells US never 10 plant
corn deep in this country. II We want
II 10 come quick. / followed his prac-
tice this year, and although, as Jack
said, - We shattered the seed on" as
pounds per acre) yet there are many
missing places, and We must replant.
What did terminate came very quick
and looks exceeding well, but I would
rather have a better stand and a little
later crop than 70 have so many empty
hills. We plowed the first time before
replanting, then followed Immediately
with the hoe, digging up fresh earth
and stepping on each Hill IS planted.
The rsplant viii come, we feel that we
know.
mean nov every Saturday evening
70 plant bed OF peas for the next six
weeks, so as to have them in succession
until the end OF the season. Frank
and ! planted the bed this evening,
May 28th) the third one OF the season.
He run the drill while l followed,
tramping the soil eompactly down on
the seed. These were marroWfat and
grow tall. so we run the rows close to-
gether, 90 inches) six rows in bed.
This tramping the soil, compacting
closely about the seed, is of greater
importance than We are apt to think
especially if the weather is dry. / am
satisfied that we have TO replsnt in the
corn, because the roller did not follow
planting. We ought to have done this I;
in fact, all grain crops should be rolled
after planting, and then again when
well under way. ! know | hear some
farmers say that grain is too low: !"
they " can't afford it. That is pre-
cisely the time they can't afford to do
otherwise than TO farm well, which al
ways implies rolling the grain land
once, at any rate.
Now, June Sd, and not a potato
planted, and nearly hundred sacks
cut ready for the furrow. The men
thought the land was ready; | thought
not. II was sod land, late, dry. We
had plowed deep and followed with the
subsoil. II these sods are left intact,
the top soil will dry out and the crop
will fail. Two teams went to work
one with the disk harrow, the other
following with the board" (clod
masherJ then turned and went over il
again crosswise; then was when the
men said il was ready. Then was
when. in my opinion, We could make
the land almost as mellow rs an ash
heap by going over il again" So
at IL we went, over sixteen acres in a
day and a half. with two teams, and
then it was pretty" as VIII said as
he admiringly looked over the tract.
We can now cultivate the crop with
ease; in fact, the cultivation is half
done now. We will mark the ground
with the marker-four rows at a time
three feet and half apart, and then
furrow out by the marks. never saw
a man yet but would make some
"wabbles in furrowing without some
such guide. 1t is important TO have
the rows straight and regular where
the potato hoe is used killing up
drilling up would be more appropri-
atei a row at one run through. Six
thousand bushels on sixteen acres is
the stake we have set. We shall
see, next fall, how far we have missed
the mark.